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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
4
The Che Bamiots Echo announces weekly Thursday publication by Mamiota Echo Publishing Co in Hamiota Manitoba. Subscription is $110 per year in advance USA $1.50. Display ad 1% per inch. legal ads 12c per line first insertion 5c per line subsequent. transient ads 1st insertion free then 2 for each follow-up. Copy due by noon Tuesday. W Venables.
The Hamiota village council met June 1 1914 with all members present and the mayor presiding. By-law No 34 to submit By-law No 2 of the Consolidated School District to electors passed after first second and third readings. By-law No 35 authorizing a 2500 loan from Union Bank of Canada for current expenses also passed after readings. Finance Committee reported accounts paid and recommended cheques. The council adjourned.
The June 6 1914 Hamiota municipal meeting delegates noxious weed inspectors J Murray and J H Bedford to attend a Manitoba Agricultural College short course in Winnipeg June 10 to 12. The council also considers forming a school district with Decker arbitration, appoints A D McConnell arbitrator, and offers Wm Angus the assessor post at 15000 per year.
Proceedings show measures to destroy muskrats on public roads and to confirm a by law. Council votes to pay 384.25 for a nine hour day and 2.25 for a single man for Stewart-Van Norman and Stewart-Cochran. Grants 500 to Hamiota Hospital for 1914. Finance committee reports accounts and adjourns to reconvene under Reeve’s call.
Community members are urged to donate worn out rubber items to McConnell Bros warehouse. The firm handles the collection until shipment to the hospital fund. Proceeds support the hospital and encourage wide participation.
12000 lbs imported alfalfa seed offered to farmers at cost with government inspection and Grade No. 2. Price 2 cents per lb. Seed guaranteed and would cost double at regular price. Sowing up to June 15. Booklet "Alfalfa and how to grow it" with each order. Mail orders to Brandon Alfalfa Seed Syndicate in Brandon Manitoba.
By law number two of the Consolidated School District of Hamiota No 2 proposes borrowing sixteen thousand dollars via debentures for an addition and furnishings. Nineteen debentures of four hundred dollars and one debenture of eight thousand four hundred dollars will bear six percent interest. Voting by electors will be held on the 3rd day of June 1914 from nine to five at multiple polling places. The mayor will preside at 2 PM for appointments and polling, with final vote tally at 7 PM at the Council Chamber. JOS. ANDREW, Secretary-Treasurer.
The CPLR Lenore branch announces the league draw with 6 Kinsmore facing Haraing at Kinsmore on June 23 as part of the Central Baseball League debut.
A July 10 matchup pits 11 Harding against Kenton in Kenton. Another card features Lenore hosting Lenore 4th with Lenore facing Kinsmore on July 4.
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